Package for bandages and analogous articles.



. BOWMAN.

- PACKAGE FOR BANDAGES AND ANALOGOUS ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 15, 1914 Patented Nov. 23, 191,

lll/l/E/VTOR WITNESSES l1 TTORIVEYS JAMES BOWMAN, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR. TO GRISWOLDVILLE MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF GRISWOLDVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented Nov. as, rare.

Application filed December 15, 1914. Serial No. 877,283.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BOWMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packages for Bandages and Analogous Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to packages for bandages and analogous articles, and the invention comprehends the packaging of bandage units without regard to the material of which they are constructed, but certain features are directed particularly to the preparation of woven fabric or gauze bandages.

()ne of the objects of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive package for bandage units, specially adapted for transportation and one in which the units are readily accessible so. that when it is desired to remove one or more from the bulk, such removal may be quickly and easily effected.

It is another object of the invention to provide an improved package wherein the units are successively arranged and conveniently detachable one after the other.

Another object lies in the improved method of packaging fabric in the form of bandages in such a manner that a bandage may be separated from the bulk in condition for immediate use leaving the remainder of the bandages packaged and protected from dirt and other deleterious elements.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The'invention accordingly consists in the several steps and the relation and order of one or more of such steps with relation to each of the others thereof, and in the features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts, which will be exemplified in the method hereinafter disclosed and the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of each of which will be indicated in the following claims.

In the drawings wherein is shown one of various possible embodiments of the invention, Figure 1 is a view of the Woven fabric preferably embodied in the invention; Fig. 2 1s a view of the exterior of the package showing thesame with the left end unit removed; and Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, there is indicated at l a sheet of woven fabric, the warp threads thereof being indicated at 2 and the weft threads, at 3. In the embodiment shown there occur certain variations in the relative positions of the warp threads as shown at 4. At intervals the warp threads are omitted providing spaces occupied solely by the weft threads. On either side of the spaces so provided the warp threads are for a slight distance run very closely together providing a tape or selvage. The fabric 1, woven as described, is dissected, by suitable cutting instruments such as knives having either straight or saw toothed edges, into separate units 5 by cutting between the tapes or selvages indicated at 4, in the spaces provided therebetween which are free from the warp threads, and then wound into rolls of the desired diameter of the finished bandage. In this fashion rolls of bandage are provided which avoid the ordinary tendency of bandages to ravel and which have selvages giving added strength to the material. The severed rolls are next arranged end to end and secured in arranged position by'a jacket or sheet 6 which may be wrapped around the rolls, or in tube form slipped over the rolls or applied in any other suitable manner. If desired, the rolls may be strung upon a core 7 either before or after the application of the jacket 6, and this core would be preferably of a flexible character as paper or cord. Said core provides more substance to and tends to prevent accidental breaking of the package, but is not essential to certain broad features of the invention. The jacket 6 is provided with indications 8 which may be in the form of weakened portions or lines, as indicated at 9, or which vmay be merely printed lines or characters,

or which in fact may be of any suitable form. In arranging the jacket 6 upon the assembled units or rolls these indications are brought into a predetermined relationship therewith and in this embodiment of the inventicn the lines 9 are disposed respectively in the transverse end planes of the units.

. Of course, the fabric used may be of ordinary weave without variations in the warp thread ositions, but effective results are obtained y the use of the fabric shown in Fig. 1, especially when it is not desired to use a core. The slightly projectin weft threads of the fabric roll substantia ly intermesh with the correspondingly projecting weft threads of an adjacent roll tending to create a closer relationship of the rolls and make the packagesmore substantial. It is, of course, to be understood that the jacket 6 may be turnedover at each end, as indicated at 10, and sealed for protection.

In removin a unit or a number of units from the pac age, the operator determines by his eye the number of bandage rolls under a certain portion of the jacket. He'is assisted in this by the indications thereon and selecting the desired point he breaks the package, jacket and rolls, and removes the selected number from the bulk. The weakened lines 9 have a tendency to cause the jacket to part therealong which causesthe package to maintain its attractive appearance and at the same time prevents dirt from penetrating to the rolls. The core 7 may be of a material that will easily break with the removal of each unit or may be of a material that will merely yield to the pressure of the operator until the package has been suflici-ently bent to cause separation of the jacket along the desired line, and said core may be left in the package indefinitely or may be clipped ofi at intervals to make the package more compact and more sightly.

It is to be noted that the fabric shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings may be constructed without omitting any warp threads, by crowding said threads away from each other along certain lines thereby compressing the threads into a tape or selvage on either side and leaving a space between, or

this may be accom lished in other ways. It will be obvious t at the embodiment described will accomplish the objects and advantages .hereinbefore set forth.

As many changes could be made in carrying out the above method, and in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accom anying drawings shall be interpretedas illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It its also to be understood that the language used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, mi ht be said to fall therebetween.

aving described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An article of manufacture comprising,

in combination, a plurality of unit fabric rolls juxtaposed axially, a common flexible core for supporting and alining said rolls, and a protective covering for said rolls having readily severable sections registering with the latter.

2. An article of manufacture comprising, in combination, a plurality of unit fabric rolls juxtaposed axially and having loosely intermeshed weft threads, a common flexible core for said rolls, and a unitary protective covering for said rolls having sections severable between the units thereof.

, In testimony whereof I afiix my signature,

in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES BOWMAN.

Witnesses:

J. THOMSON, C. J. KULBERG. 

